Re: Vegatative states and neuroscience: From Hari Kumar

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> "One of the key areas for the disabled rights movement is 
> cognitive issues. To be clear when I use this term, 
> cognitive, many disabled people do not use
> it in broad context, but to mean a specific area of 
> disability.  Cognitive for me is involvement of the brain in 
> a disability.  Schizophrenia,
> developmental disability, blindness, dyslexia and so forth 
> have cognitive issues.  

For what it's worth, dyslexia and many developmental disabilities are more perceptual or information-processing (awareness) problems rather than being cognitive (knowing & judgement) problems. 
Jim